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From: reid@decwrl.dec.com (Brian Reid)
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Subject: BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY (SEP 88)
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Date: 2 Oct 88 17:40:35 GMT
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BOTTOM 20 NEWSGROUPS IN ORDER BY POPULARITY
A companion posting explains the statistics and the algorithms that produced
them.

       +-- Estimated total number of people who read the group, worldwide.
       |     +-- Actual number of readers in sampled population
       |     |     +-- Propagation: how many sites receive this group at all
       |     |     |      +-- Recent traffic (messages per month)
       |     |     |      |     +-- Recent traffic (kilobytes per month)
       |     |     |      |     |      +-- Crossposting percentage
       |     |     |      |     |      |    +-- Cost ratio: $US/month/reader
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       +-- Share: % of newsreaders
       |     |     |      |     |      |    |       |   who read this group.
       V     V     V      V     V      V    V       V
351  1700   119   37%    17   21.0     6%  0.01    0.6%  alt.great-lakes
352  1600   116   75%    56  125.4     6%  0.11    0.6%  rec.folk-dancing
353  1500   111   86%    15  180.2     0%  0.19    0.6%  soc.roots
354  1500   111   35%    10   20.4     0%  0.01    0.6%  bionet.jobs
355  1400   102   36%    43   66.7    17%  0.03    0.5%  alt.rhode_island
356  1400    99   79%     6    6.4     0%  0.01    0.5%  comp.os.rsts
357  1400    98   95%     1    6.4   100%  0.01    0.5%  rec.mag.otherrealms
358  1300    96   60%     1    2.9     0%  0.00    0.5%  comp.sys.super
359  1200    90   11%    12   17.9     0%  0.00    0.5%  gnu.emacs.gnus
360  1200    83   85%     1    6.9   100%  0.01    0.4%  rec.arts.int-fiction
361  1100    82   36%     4   10.0     0%  0.01    0.4%  bionet.general
362  1000    75   57%     1    0.7     0%  0.00    0.4%  comp.mail.multi-media
363  1000    73   98%     1    1.5   100%  0.00    0.4%  news.software.notes
364  1000    73   60%     4    4.5     0%  0.00    0.4%  soc.culture.esperanto
365   930    67   60%    17   28.0     0%  0.03    0.3%  comp.sys.ti.explorer
366   930    67   55%     1    1.0     0%  0.00    0.3%  comp.protocols.iso.x400
367   470    34   35%     1    6.4     0%  0.01    0.2%  bionet.software.pc
368    69     5    0%   131  245.4    41%  0.03    0.0%  unix-pc.general
369    55     4    0%    27  753.8     8%  0.11    0.0%  unix-pc.sources
370    42     3    0%    42   82.0    30%  0.02    0.0%  unix-pc.bugs